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Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.
Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
Abstract sent to the Royal Society. It seems to CD "uncommonly clear and well-done".
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E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.
CD’s letter from Tiflis is not in Russian but Georgian.
Sends thanks for CD’s help in making him a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Dyer has sent some Erinem.
S. C. Malan, Rector of Broadwindsor, could translate Georgian letter from Tiflis.
A letter of congratulation to Thomas Carlyle on his 80th birthday signed by CD and 118 others; to accompany the gift of a commemorative medal.
Acknowledges QS’s letter [10280f] and the diploma of the Accademia dei Lincei.
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Comments on AW’s essay [on "Axolotl", Z. Wiss. Zool. 25 (suppl.) (1875): 297–342] with respect to evolutionary reversion. Peloric flowers must also be considered reversion.
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Asks for CD to add his name to James Croll’s application to the Royal Society of London.
Snow has caused postponement of trip to London. Will inform WR when he arrives.
Sends Linnean papers.
He will repeat his experiments on the cat’s sense of smell.
The intelligence of rats is shown by their gnawing through lead pipes to find water.
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